Praying for you, Marilyn. I know that you don't need stress and am happy that you are praying through! It's amazing that the Creator of the universe hears our prayers and answers out of an abundance of love for us. I haven't tried the restoralax, but I do have Miralax which has the same ingredient as the Restoralax. I found no relief when I used it alone. I found no relief using the Dulcolax chews alone. The pills cause sever cramps and pain but the chews are milder and don't cause any pain or cramps at all. I used the full dosage throughout one day and the next day and a normal movement but then had constipation again. I used the Miralax in the AM and two Dulcolax chews in the afternoon about 9 days ago and haven't needed anything else for those 9 days, although it caused me to have BMs every time I went to the bathroom! It wasn't diarrhea, so I was okay with it, better than being clogged up. I just need to figure out a pattern of usage that is going to make things normal. I put the MiraLax in my coffee in the morning, about half the dosage.

Bren, woohoo on the very good glucose reading. Oh boy, you sure can take a nap or two for me. I get 8 hours of sleep and want to just go back to bed! I'm taking something to help my adrenal gland which produces the cortisol that works out waking and sleeping times. Hopefully I will be able to get my times turned around again. I'm so glad you heard from your son. I've been wondering how he's doing! I'm sorry it took this to get his life in Jesus' hands, but praise the Lord he is working out his salvation with fear and trembling (Bible verse) and seeking the Lord now.

Doing better, less pain and walking isn't as painful as it was. My back isn't happy, but then, it almost never is. I'm going to go get my TENS unit and sit for a bit. Love y'all.

Do you need everything in your bundle? Cable and phone sound like that's it, but that's a lot of money to be paying for those two things. Oh, is Internet in there too. That price then sounds like what I was paying when we had internet and cable through Spectrum on ours. Our internet alone is $80 a month, we got rid of the cable and only use the cell phones, although the way that they listen in through that there are times when I wouldn't mind just having a land line - but they listen in to those as well. When we had satellite TV through Direct, after the promotion the price went up nearly every month. After about three months we said, "No, more." We got rid of the cable to save money. We use a Roku to get all of the free TV stuff, there isn't any charge to use that, just to buy the device.

I hope you have a really good day and are able to enjoy a Bible Study or prayer meeting this evening. Love y'all.

Do they have a bundle deal for just the land line and the cable? The other bundle is over now, so they should allow you to switch to something else. It may just be too much trouble to mess with and not save that much! I'm starting to have trouble with my hearing, although it's not too bad right now. If Wade is in the other room I can hear he's saying something but I can't understand what he is saying. I think part of it is how low his voice is and he also speaks quietly, so it's just a rumble to me. I don't seem to have as much trouble hearing a female voice - unless it's the same tone as my tinnitus - I couldn't hear baby birds chirping or the beep on our digital thermometer - same tone as the ringing in my ears! LOL! I would like to have a hearing test to see what kind of hearing trouble I have. I think it has more to do with ambient noise than anything.

Doing better today, praise the Lord! Everything hurt yesterday, even my shoulders! Just my lower back is hurting right now, pretty normal! I'm so grateful to the Lord that it didn't last long.

Wade went to the dentist yesterday and the eye doctor today - he asked if I wanted to go, but even in the air conditioned offices or stores I over heat. I walk around sweating while everyone else looks comfortable. I have a good seat at Church. We have three A/C units in there and I found the convergence of all three, plus a fan blowing on my back! Ahhhh! Sometimes I use a hand fan for a bit after I've walked over in the heat, but I didn't even need to do that last night! We had a really good service. It was about keeping a positive, joyful attitude in whatever we are going through. Don't lose heart, don't lose courage!

Love y'all. Praying for you!

Oh no! So sorry about the flair up. Praying your weeks worth will do the job!

It's kind of "funny", two other people in the Church have hearing issues as well, so several of us are always saying - "what?" or looking to someone else to tell us what we didn't hear! LOL! I try to pick out words I do hear and cobble them together to make sense so I can respond with some sort of logical answer!
I really need to get on my Magnesium Threonate powder again, that helped a lot with my memory. I'm forgetting too many things. I take some capsules, but they don't seem to work as well as the powder does.
Wade keeps the house around 80-84 and he is comfortable, me, I'm sweating. Kind of opposite to how it had always been. We have to keep it higher because of how old our H/Vac is, we don't want it to go out! It's already been worked on twice since we've been here. The A/C in the bedroom is lovely!
Well, not much else going on with me. Love y'all very much!

I'm sorry I didn't see this yesterday! Praying for Ryan!

Marilyn, I was so happy to see you are at 10! You have a ways to go, but I remember that two years ago you were sure you were going to have to go on dialysis - and two years have now gone by and that number is getting better! It's better than it was two years ago! And your weight loss - woohoo. Keep up the good work! Praise the Lord.

Had blood work done today. I should be able to see the results tomorrow afternoon on the lab site. Just five months ago everything looked really good and even my cholesterol was much improved. I've been taking a supplement to help bring down my glucose since it was 95 or so. They lowered the high normal from 120 to 100 and I'm too close to that so want to bring that back into the 80's that I'm used to. Eating less sweets but still getting those carbs.

Love you ladies and hope you have a blessed evening in fellowship with other believers (if possible).

It is just to easy for life to get away from us. I am keeping a sporadic journal of what is happening with my health. I put something in every few days. With the library card you can borrow books on-line and have them sent to your Kindle. My library has a two week loan time, but sometimes you have to wait awhile before the book is available. I also have Hoopla through my library and I get books from there immediately. Connie's library lets her borrow quite a few more than mine does. She can borrow up to 9 books a month, me just five. I like to get the audio books from Hoopla, I tend to forget to go there when I have just the e-book. I also have Kindle Unlimited which is a subscription site through Amazon and all the books on KU are free and you can keep them as long as you want, but you only get 10 or so borrows at a time. If you can find the subscription during a sale time it's quite a good deal - but I try to see how many books I would read and will it pay to get the subscription rather than having to buy the books. Connie uses that and other services and ends up definitely saving money overall. She reads around 40-50 books a month so the subscription definitely saves her money. I read 10-20 a month, about half of those are KU, so that does save me money as well. My library doesn't care many of the new books, although Hoopla does, so I don't go to my library site as often. Other libraries have a much bigger selection of Christian fiction. I paid, through a deal, $127.97 for a full year, otherwise it's $11.99 a month.

We had very nice cool weather yesterday. I never felt overheated - so nice. I even sat outside two different times and watched the chickens.

Have a beautiful weekend.

Oh Bren! You can make the changes you need to, don't let go of hope! As much as you love veggies I think that you would be able to get back down in weight quickly, just make them a big part of every meal and add a little bit of healthy protein (fish, chicken, even pork). Watch the sodium very carefully, that will help with water retention. Fruit too as a part of each meal, choosing the darker colored ones like blueberries, strawberries, black berries and raspberries. They have a bag of frozen berries with blueberries, blackberries and raspberries in it. You could put some out to thaw and add that to a salad. I like to add it to a smoothie. You can do this! You've done it before and if your set your mind and your shopping list to it you can succeed! I know you can!

Here's a post from my Pastor from way back in April. I'm putting his FB posts on my computer. He hasn't been able to add to his blog since March so I've been taking the posts from FB and reading over them. This one seemed like a good one for all of us!
04-05-24
We cannot always determine what happens to us, but as Christians we can choose how we will respond to what happens to us.

This is because Christians are new creations, bought by Christ's sacrifice, born of God, indwelt by God's Spirit, taught by God's word, led by God's Spirit, conformed to the image of God's Son, partaker of Divine nature, delivered from the works of the flesh and producing the fruit of the Spirit (including self-control).

Not every conflict we face is a direct attack on us by Satan.
Sometimes it is because of a general attack of Satan, but we are personally "caught" in the crossfire (such as, victim of war, disease, plague).
Sometimes "bad things happen to 'good' people" for our good and/or God's glory.
Sometimes God allows us to face troubles in order to perfect us, or correct us or to protect us.
Sometimes we are victims of our own decisions.

We are sometimes caught, "off guard," but God is never surprised or unprepared.
Not everything that happens to a Christian is good, but God works all things for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose.

In His sovereignty God gives man the power of the will, and through His grace God enables man to agree with, and accept the will of God.
We cannot will reality into existence, but we can will to do God's will, by His power that works within us.
Php 2:13-15 13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Have a very blessed weekend y'all. You are loved and prayed for!